Invitation to UK PubMed Central Showcase

Join us to discover more about UKPubMed Central, a unique, innovative and free online resource offering access to information sources for biomedical and health researchers.

Keynote speakers:

Professor Dame Sally C. Davies

Director General, Research and Development at the Department of Health

Time, date and location:

10.00 – 13.00, Tuesday 12 January 2010

British Library Conference Centre, 96 Euston Road, London NW1 2DB

 To view a map of the venue, click here.

 UK PubMed Central offers:

• Free access to published, peer reviewed research articles from the UK, the United States and beyond
• Innovative and powerful ways to access other relevant sources of information
• Search and retrieval of other valuable, additional content such as clinical guidelines
• Grant management tools: bringing greater transparency and efficiency to researchers and their funders
• Opportunities for researchers to improve visibility and citation of their research findings
• Ongoing programmes of engagement with the UK and international research
  community to continue developing and enhancing services and tools

New journal added to the Library

We now have access to The International Journal of Clinical Skills.  You will need to log in with your Athens account, both on and off campus.  Please search for the journal’s name in Voyager, and there will be a link to the online journal.

Searching for Grey Literature – unpublished materials?

OpenSIGLE– System for Information on Grey Literature in Europe: Grey literature is the term used to describe unpublished materials such as conference papers, technical reports, etc. OPEN SIGLE provides a searchable database of over 800,000 of these hard to find documents. Each record provides bibliographic details and links to sources which might supply a copy of the document.

The SIGLE database is multidisciplinary database, covering fundamental and applied sciences, technologies, humanities and social sciences.  OpenSIGLE is available at: http://opensigle.inist.fr/

Learning Opportunity – The Cochrane Library

Wiley-Blackwell are offering instructor-led online training on how to use The Cochrane Library thecochranelibrary.com  .

 All that you will need is a good internet connection and access to a telephone.  This training is completely free of charge and will be conducted over the telephone and via the internet using a product called webex that allows you to view live presentations from your desktop…  Wiley InterScience will supply a freephone number to dial, so that attendees can speak to the presenter, listen to the presentation and take part in the online meeting at the same time without incurring any costs.  

 The session will last approximately 1 hour.  Places are strictly limited and to sign up just follow the link below and paste it and then select “Registration”:

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Tuesday, 8 December  2009 – 10:30am

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Go to https://wiley-interscience.webex.com/wiley-interscience/k2/j.php?ED=119073272&UID=1067323982&FM=1

 

Once you are approved by the host, you will receive a confirmation email with instructions for joining the session.

Visit our training website at: www.interscience.wiley.com/training

 

CHIRAL Seminar – Minimising losses to follow-up in clinical trials: Evidence based research and missing data in randomised trials

Wednesday 25th November, ILS Seminar Room 1, 12.30pm

Randomised controlled trials are the cornerstone of evidence-based medicine, and increasing numbers of trials need to be conducted to provide the necessary high-quality evidence to inform clinical practice.  Trials are time-consuming, complex and costly to conduct, so it is important to ensure that they are conducted as efficiently as possible.  There is an increasing amount of evidence about the best methods to use to help successful completion of trials.  As an example, this presentation will consider the issue of missing data, and describe an experimental study conducted alongside a randomised trial (the MINT incentive study).  Issues of translation of evidence into research practice and the future research agenda will be explored.

Critical Appraisal – evaluating journal articles

If you want to know more about evaluating a journal article you may want to take a look at the following resources available in the library;

The pocket guide to critical appraisal by Ian K Crombie is a short book which covers the basics http://voyager.swan.ac.uk/vwebv/search?searchArg=crombie+critical+appraisal&searchCode=GKEY%5E*&limitTo=none&recCount=10&searchType=1

Online you can access Critical appraisal and using the literature
a tutorial published by Sheffield University http://voyager.swan.ac.uk/vwebv/holdingsInfo?searchId=4873&recCount=10&recPointer=11&bibId=457211

Just Launched: Cochrane Journal Club

The Cochrane Library is pleased to announce the launch of a new FREE resource – the Cochrane Journal Club. A key article has been taken from issue 4 of the Cochrane Libraryand expanded with background information, podcasts, powerpoint slides of key figures and tables and discussion questions.

This is the perfect aid to help clinicians and researchers present a paper to their journal clubs.

This is the link to the first Cochrane Journal Club on Biologics for rheumatoid arthritis – www.cochranejournalclub.com

Welsh Local Health Boards’ Demographics

With the creation of the new Local Health Boards, a new website has come up with demographic profiles for each Board.  The English language version can be found by clicking here; the Welsh language version can be found by clicking here.

Global Health database trial

The Library currently has a trial of the Global Health database until the 15^th November.  To access the database from on-campus, please go to www.cabdirect.org and you can use the basic or advanced search.

Global Health is a selective database of 1.4 million records dedicated to public and international health and biological sciences.  Many of the titles are unique and will not overlap other health databases such as PubMed (ie WHO documents).  Please feel free to give the database a try, and send any feedback to medlib@swan.ac.uk .

‘Tweeting’ medics expose patients

Research in the Journal of the American Medical Association found examples of web gossip by trainee doctors sharing private patient stories and details.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/8266546.stm